Seventeen-year-old
Luke Chesser is trying to forget his spectacular failure of a love life. He
practices marching band moves for hours in the hot Texas sun, deals with his
disapproving father, and slyly checks out the new band field tech, Curtis
Cameron. Before long, Luke is falling harder than he knew he could. And this
time, he intends to play it right.

Since
testing positive for HIV, Curtis has careened between numbness and fear. Too
ashamed to tell anyone, Curtis can’t possibly act on his feelings. And
Luke—impulsive, funny, and more tempting than he realizes—won’t take a hint.
Even when Curtis distances himself it backfires, leaving him with no idea how
to protect Luke from the truth.

Confronting
a sensitive topic with candor and aplomb, acclaimed author J. H. Trumble
renders a modern love story as sweet, sharp, and messy as the real thing, where
easy answers are elusive, and sometimes the only impossible thing is to walk
away.